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Hazardous Waste - 1,541 words
Hazardous waste and its proper disposal have
become a major sociological problem today due to
its capability of contaminating the area in which
we live and its potential to be lethal to all
living things. In order for the United States and
the rest of the world to save itself from a
potentially life threatening problem they must fix
the causes which lead to the improper disposal of
hazardous wastes and like materials. Some reasons
that hazardous waste has become a problem in the
United States today is due to the breakdown in
enforcing laws for the proper disposal of such
wastes, a lack of initiative on big companies
behalf to spend money on proper disposal, and the
ease of disposing of such ...
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The 1960s - 1,248 words
The 1960s were a time of great change in American
society characterized by ethnic consciousness and
civil rights, womens rights and female liberalism,
anti-war demonstrations, student protests, and the
genesis of the counterculture. A noted speaker
once said, The Cold War, conformity, and
consumerism provided the background for the social
protests movement of the 1960s. The cause of the
protest movements were much more deeply rooted in
U.S. institutions and history. Although the
protest movements of the 1960s were deeply rooted
in U.S. institutions and history of the 1950s, the
Cold War, conformity, and consumerism provided
much more than a background for these movements,
in a way they were ...
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Wiretaps - 1,397 words
Imagine you're talking on your telephone. It's
something that everyone takes for granted. Now
imagine that the police are listening to every
phone conversation that you make. Does that scare
you? I know that it scares me. Wiretaps are an
issue that effects every person in this country.
That's because no matter how much we don't like to
admit it, we need depend on telephone services
more and more as time passes. The issue of
telephone privacy becomes bigger and bigger every
day as our telephone technology becomes more
advanced. Wire taps are devices that are being
used more often by law enforcement agencies to
capture criminals, but there does come time when
the actions of law enforcement age ...
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Alcohol - 1,001 words
... Evidence shows a drop in smoking among youths
until 1980, when it eventually reached a plateau.
For more than ten years the number of teenagers
who smoked stayed basically in the same range,
however, in the early 90s the percentage increased
by thirty. Regulations restricting the use of
alcohol are long existent. Early governments such
as those of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and
Romans established laws to limit the use of
alcohol in order to prevent its abuse. Only a
decade after alcohol was initially introduced to
America by European explorers, a law was passed in
order to restrict excessive drinking. This law
punished whomever was caught drunk, and the
severity of the punishment dep ...
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Binge Drinking On College Campuses - 1,302 words
We have all heard the terms boozing, drinking to
get drunk, sloshed, tanked, tipsy, tooted,
hammered, and the like. But have you ever really
thought about what you were saying when you used
these terms. You were saying that all that you did
the night before was binge drink. Binge drinking
on college campuses is something that has grown to
an all time high. All too often we have heard the
horror stories of how kids are getting behind the
wheel of a car after a night of binge drinking,
and end up killing everyone involved, but
themselves. Binge drinking is dangerous and until
we all realize that it has serious effects, we
will never fully understand it. The Harvard
University student questionn ...
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To Scream Or Not To Scream - 743 words
To Scream or not to Scream In the realm of horror
movies there are many genres. There is the
slasher, the rogue animal, the alien monster, and
even the freakish natural disaster just to name a
few. The genre that seems to dominate the field
currently is the slasher movie. There is a movie
in the slasher genre that adheres to many of the
slasher movie rules and at the same time violates
many slasher rules. This dynamic slasher genre
movie is called Scream. To be included in the
slasher movie genre, a movie must meet certain
criteria. A slasher movie must have blood, and
lots of it! Many slasher movies are centered on a
lead character, which usually turns out to be a
beautiful virgin. Killers ...
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Revolution In The South - 918 words
When asked the question "Did Reconstruction change
the South for African Americans?" I thought long
and hard. I realized what a great revolution had
taken place for the entire black race, to be
coming out of slavery and slowly but surely things
were happening. Jobs and juries were full of
blacks. But come 1877 the dream was ripped out of
many beholders and turned into a nightmare, it
seems, for the next century, as racism rampaged
once again through the country. Therefore I
believe that good changes were made but not
enough. Socially, blacks built lives for
themselves. "In 1865-1866, free men and women all
over the South grabbed Liberty by the
horns."(Freidheim, P.195) Using their newfound f ...
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Anglo Saxson Literature - 713 words
As the twenty first century begins it is nearly
impossible to imagine a world with out a Christian
influence. There is not a nation in the world that
hasn't been introduced to the teachings of Christ
in some form or another. It is easy to see then,
difficulty of a reader who has emerged in this
"modern" society to relate to the paganism
associated with the two poems "The Wander" and
"The Seafarer." Both poems try and convince the
reader the horrors and disadvantages that
accompany paganism with a direct focus on
loneliness, in the form of being exiled or from
not knowing to love of the Christian God and
foolishly intrusting in the Wyrd. Both poems are
examples of Christian theology in direct ...
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Y2k - 1,211 words
Everybody is wondering what is going to happen in
the year 2000. Nobody really knows exactly what is
going to happen. Nevertheless, a lot of business
people are making money using scare tactics and
hype to make people nervous about the future. With
all of the technology in today's society and
everyone modernizing his or her computer, there
will not likely be a problem in the new
millennium. The issue of Y2K has been going on for
several years now. Hundreds of articles have been
written about the Y2K issue. The first article
every written on the subject was back in the 80's.
"An analyst at an auto manufacturer presented the
first article on the Year 2000 and it was
published in the 1984 issue ...
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The Abortion Controversy W Works Cited - 1,404 words
... cedures is about the same, around $250.00.
This may be a high cost to pay for poor women or
for those who are not able to afford an abortion.
Many poor women are having children, many of them
illegitimate, simply because they are unable to
afford an abortion. This social issue leads the
abortion debate down another heated debate: should
the government fund abortions for the poor?
Charles Murray, an advocate for government funded
abortions, wrote "Illegitimacy is the single most
important social problem of our time--more
important than crime, drugs, poverty, welfare or
homelessness, because it drives everything else."
(Alcorn 125). In 1978, an amendment banned the use
of federal funds for ...
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Italian Mafia - 1,293 words
The Mafia was first developed in Sicily in feudal
times to protect the estates of landlords who were
out of town. The word Mafia, derived from the
Sicilian word, Mafioso, means family. Today, Mafia
is a name which describes a loose association of
criminal groups. These groups can be bound
together by blood, oath or sworn secrecy. Many
people had considered the Sicilian Mafia as the
most ruthless mobsters of the twentieth century.
By the nineteenth century, the Mafia had become
known as a network of criminal thugs that
dominated the Sicilian countryside. Members of the
Mafia were bound by Omerta. Omerta, an Italian
word, stands for a strict code of conduct. The
code include avoiding all conta ...
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The Beast Within - 686 words
Lord of the Flies, awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature is considered a modern classic. What
makes this novel so interesting and realistic is
the fact that it parallels with the real world.
The point that Golding was trying to make was that
evil is inside all of us. He used this novel to
express to the readers his thoughts on the matter,
which was that to defeat the evil inside yourself,
you have to admit that it is there. Simon managed
to face the beast inside him. But unfortunately,
since the other boys still believed that the beast
was a living, breathing creature, it resulted in
the death of Simon. When comparing the characters
in the book to real people, it is not hard to see
the simi ...
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Steroids In Sports - 1,751 words
... Chill, euphoria, diarrhea, fatigue, fever,
muscle cramps, headache, unexplained weight
loss/gain, nausea and vomiting, vomiting blood,
bone pains, depression, gallstone (Mishra, 4-5).
Steroids effect on Adolescents: Steroids may stop
the growth of the bones of the adolescents by
closing the growth plates of the bones so kids
will end up shorter than what they should have
been (Anabolic steroids, 3). Psychological effects
Moreover, steroids have psychological effects
starting with aggression; many steroid users
reported feeling higher levels of aggression
behavior. Some reported mood swings and psychotic
episodes, or so-called roid-range. Never the less,
steroids users reported an addict ...
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Piracy In The 21st Century - 1,452 words
Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines
piracy as, an act of robbery on the high seas or
an act resembling such robbery (885). From this we
can define software piracy as an act of robbery on
the information superhighway. Many people do not
see it as such. Even though the average person
would never consider going into a convenience
store and stealing a stick of gum, many have no
qualms about stealing thousands of dollars worth
of software. In a study done by the Canadian
Alliance Against Software Theft, 43 percent of
adult Canadians who were asked thought that
pirating software for personal use was OK. This
feeling has come about in several ways. Older
computer users, with Unix backgro ...
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Socio-economic Change After World War I - 1,674 words
Many social, political and economic problems
plagued the world at the end of World War I,
leading people to search for alternative
solutions. Coincidently as the war ended, Fascism
was introduced to the masses. Fascism was
everything the people looked for and wanted. It
placed an emphasis on the nation as the center and
regulator for all history and life, and on the
indisputable authority of the leader behind whom
the people were expected to form an unbreakable
unity. (Britannica.com, 2.10.01) Before delving
into the complication known as Fascism, we must
look at the events that led up to its outbreak and
instant popularity. Edmund Burke once stated,
Social change is inevitable and desirable ...
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Male Consumer Advertisements And Buying Patterns Market Research - 1,018 words
... around or even an old cow. Well it is because
that we are attracted to good-looking people and
want to be around them. In addition, words have
been removed from this ad altogether to reinforce
the images without any distractions. Images take
the form of words and theses directed combinations
of images help involve in the ads that we look at
(O'Niell, 1990). In addition, this ad also
illustrates the use of transactional language that
can be identified by the disclaimer in the lower
right hand corner. The disclaimer indicated that
this was an ad for Marlboro cigarettes. I remember
some time ago when I purchased a watch because of
an advertisement, which had a well-built man in a
well-fitte ...
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Rogerian Legaliztion - 1,157 words
For Legalization The cannabis plant has been the
topic of much debate throughout the history of
this country. Many people don't know that it was
not the effect of cannabis that originally spurred
its banning. It was actually originally the work
of the cotton industry who put big money behind
illegalization for the plant's mind altering
effects. The cotton industry was afraid that hemp,
a product of the cannabis plant, would soon
overpower the strong hold of cotton since it was a
more durable textile that required less work, less
ground depletion, and could be grown almost
anywhere. Since the time when cannabis first
became illegal it has been grouped with other
narcotics as a counterpart. Th ...
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